luis

A Rust based Lua parser

Why?

learning experience

Prior art

• https://github.com/rozbb/nom-lua53
• https://github.com/LPGhatguy/mab

from https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html

``` chunk ::= block

block ::= {stat} [retstat]

stat ::= ‘;’ | varlist ‘=’ explist | functioncall | label | break | goto Name | do block end | while exp do block end | repeat block until exp | if exp then block {elseif exp then block} [else block] end | for Name ‘=’ exp ‘,’ exp [‘,’ exp] do block end | for namelist in explist do block end | function funcname funcbody | local function Name funcbody | local namelist [‘=’ explist]

retstat ::= return [explist] [‘;’]

label ::= ‘::’ Name ‘::’

funcname ::= Name {‘.’ Name} [‘:’ Name]

varlist ::= var {‘,’ var}

var ::= Name | prefixexp ‘[’ exp ‘]’ | prefixexp ‘.’ Name

namelist ::= Name {‘,’ Name}

explist ::= exp {‘,’ exp}

exp ::= nil | false | true | Numeral | LiteralString | ‘...’ | functiondef | prefixexp | tableconstructor | exp binop exp | unop exp

prefixexp ::= var | functioncall | ‘(’ exp ‘)’

functioncall ::= prefixexp args | prefixexp ‘:’ Name args

args ::= ‘(’ [explist] ‘)’ | tableconstructor | LiteralString

functiondef ::= function funcbody

funcbody ::= ‘(’ [parlist] ‘)’ block end

parlist ::= namelist [‘,’ ‘...’] | ‘...’

tableconstructor ::= ‘{’ [fieldlist] ‘}’

fieldlist ::= field {fieldsep field} [fieldsep]

field ::= ‘[’ exp ‘]’ ‘=’ exp | Name ‘=’ exp | exp

fieldsep ::= ‘,’ | ‘;’

binop ::= ‘+’ | ‘-’ | ‘*’ | ‘/’ | ‘//’ | ‘^’ | ‘%’ | ‘&’ | ‘~’ | ‘|’ | ‘>>’ | ‘<<’ | ‘..’ | ‘<’ | ‘<=’ | ‘>’ | ‘>=’ | ‘==’ | ‘~=’ | and | or

unop ::= ‘-’ | not | ‘#’ | ‘~’ ```